Aston Villa manager Dean Smith has hailed the impact Ross Barkley has had since his arrival from Chelsea.
The 26-year-old has impressed in midfield and scored twice in his three appearances for Villa since joining the club on a season-long loan deal earlier this month.
Former Tottenham and Southampton manager Mauricio Pochettino will join Jamie Carragher on Monday Night Football this week as Leeds United host Leicester City.
Pochettino has been long associated with Leeds manager Marcelo Bielsa. He played under him as a teenager at Newells Old Boys and then later at Espanyol and for Argentina.
Leicester full-back Timothy Castagne is set to be out of action until after the November international break because of a hamstring injury.
The summer signing from Atalanta was missing from the Foxes squad for Thursday night’s Europa League win over AEK Athens along with Jonny Evans.
The knock could keep him out of the Premier League clashes with Leeds and Wolves, the Europa League game against Braga in between, as well as Belgium’s internationals with Switzerland, England and Denmark.
Manager Brendan Rodgers confirmed: „Timothy might be out until after the international break. It’s a slight twinge in his hamstring.
„Jonny was due to play, but he felt it last night. He had an awkward landing against Arsenal. He’s felt the pain again today and it was too much pain, so unfortunately he doesn’t make it.“
Belgium face Switzerland in a friendly before two UEFA Nations League games against England and Denmark, the last of which is on November 18. Leicester then travel to Liverpool on November 21.
Castagne has impressed so far in his first season in the Premier League and has been ever-present in Rodgers’ defence, while Evans joined him after missing the first few games of the campaign.
They were absent as Leicester won 2-1 in Greece on Thursday night to stay joint-top of Group G with Braga after two games.
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Jose Mourinho ripped into his Tottenham fringe players for not taking their chance in Antwerp, saying he now has „easy choices“ when selecting his first team.
For Thursday’s Europa League Group J game, Mourinho made nine changes from the win at Burnley, hoping to see some of his fringe players stake a claim.
Manchester United midfielder Scott McTominay has no doubts that Donny van de Beek’s „time will come“ after struggling for minutes in the early stages of the season.
Van de Beek, who signed for United from Ajax for £35m in the summer, made just his second start for United in Wednesday’s 5-0 Champions League group win over RB Leipzig, his first coming against Luton in the Carabao Cup.
Mikel Arteta admitted goalscorer Nicolas Pepe needs to „find his consistency“ before earning more starts for Arsenal under his leadership.
Pepe started and scored in Arsenal’s 3-0 win over Irish minnows Dundalk at the Emirates on Thursday night, but has featured in a Premier League line-up only once under Arteta this season, playing barely 200 minutes of league football across the Gunners’ six matches to date.
Arteta has repeatedly offered Pepe public encouragement about his potential at the club but speaking to the media following a patchy performance from the Ivory Coast international in their Europa League win, he admitted his consistency would have to improve before he would be certain of more minutes.
„He’s not been first choice in all of the games at the moment but he’s played a lot of moments,“ he said. „Some have been better than others.
„It’s about finding the consistency, not through the games but during the games as well to be more incisive, and do the right things on many occasions when he has to make the right decision on the pitch.
„It’s nothing to do with his attitude. He’s a player who takes risks, a very creative player – that’s the most difficult thing in football, when the opposition know what you can do, how much they want to prevent the space, and creating situations from that is complicated.
„But sometimes it’s the simple things, the deliveries, the amount of situations he’s able to create or attract and then make the right decision to keep evolving that phase of play. For example, the finishing, the position inside the box, he has to be more consistent at it. We’re working on it, and hopefully he will be doing it much more efficiently.“
Arteta insisted Arsenal had made life look easy against Dundalk despite registering only six shots on target across the 90 minutes and failing to test Gary Rogers until the 34th minute, with their three goals coming in a four-minute blitz of quality either side of half time.
He said: „I think we made it look easy because we were very disciplined, took it seriously, and at it right from the beginning.
„We’ve seen in other games if you are not 100 per cent what can happen. We made a lot of changes, we gave a lot of opportunity to players who deserve it and I think they performed well.
„We have a large squad and I wanted to give opportunities to everybody, they’ve been patient and trained well. Today they proved they are well prepared when we need them. They made things more difficult for me for selection. I am very pleased for their performance and how they reacted today.“
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Sky Sports News reporter Vinny O’Connor has the latest on Liverpool’s injury problems and discusses the young players who could cover at centre-back.
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Doubters will doubt, haters will hate, that’s just what they do.
Ryan Giggs fears Manchester United may have to wait 20 years to win another Premier League title.
United have not won the top-flight since Sir Alex Ferguson retired at the end of the 2012-13 season, with three permanent managers – David Moyes, Louis van Gaal and Jose Mourinho – sacked in the period since.
Liverpool and Manchester City secured comfortable wins in their Champions League ties on Tuesday before Chelsea and Manchester United really turned on the style the following evening. Here, we pick out some of the key talking points…
Marcus Rashford has been labelled a national treasure for his free school meals campaign but it’s not just off the pitch that he is making an impact. His hat-trick against RB Leipzig in the Champions League on Wednesday underlined his increasing importance on it.
The Manchester United striker had sealed a standout 2-1 win away to Paris Saint-Germain last time out in Europe and stepped off the bench to thump RB Leipzig
